Ben Miles is currently promoting his upcoming show The Capture’s third season. He spoke exclusively with Filmfare about the show’s core philosophy of educating audiences about AI and deepfake technologies. Ben also shared more about the characters in the show and how they are going through loneliness because of their professions.
He said, “The professional lives of a lot of characters in the show are their personal lives as well. They have no social group, apart from the people they work with. Their hours are often long and extreme. A person from Counter Terrorism was an advisor on the show, he said that we can’t tell anyone what you do anyway. There is no outlet for anyone. If you’ve come home from work and you’ve had a bad day, you can’t really say that. You can’t share your world with anyone other than the people in that world. It is a claustrophobic environment. So the rare moments in the show where we Rachel carry on her own are really important.”
The actor shared about the growing nature of AI and deepfake. He shared that the show wants the audiences to understand the dangerous risks of fake truths in the digital age. “This also helps us see the human cost of this life. Similar conversations were happening in seasons 1 and 2 as well. You kind of want the audience to really think about what they see and what they consume, particularly online. We talk about the faking of our images in terms of drama. But the less benign version of that is the fake truth that we’re shown so often. We are shown factual stuff not being factual. News footage not being real. How elections are manipulated and wars are manipulated. The use for this technology in a sort of propaganda is vast. And if we get people questioning even in a small way half of what they consume online and on TV, then that is probably a good thing,” he noted.
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